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2.5 Reading for Understanding
Mandarin Chinese · Grade 9 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Reading strategies: predicting and summarising; brainstorming strategies; reflective reading journals
- Fun activities in texts (看电影、吃饭、散步、爬山、游泳、骑自行车、旅行、看动物); intentions with 打算、要、会、请
What you will be able to do
- identify various reading strategies
- apply predicting and summarising to texts on plans
Key questions
“How do you apply reading strategies effectively to understand key information in a text?”
Lessons
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Predicting and summarising
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPredict a text from its title, read it and summarise it in one sentence.
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Words of intention and a reading journal
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead sentences with 打算, 要, 会 and 请, identify the key idea, and keep a reflective reading journal.